The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1887-11-02
wszp,no ron THE LOST CAUSE


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An unrspentant Traitor Voices His
Treason.
n.,..x q. ~, o--Tber, were ramar- !
k.tla sc.n..s and u,,eranetss AZ the review of
~. c,onfs.d.rafe veterans nv JefFhrson Davis |
x,~,erdav of which particuIars could not be
-, a., thar ,.v o,v;ny "a the failure f,f feie
-. ,,,,;. ,on,mpn;ca,ian
r,,. .;,v .s buny ev.,x w hese with Con-
e,s,,-.,a ,,.o. aud evervbo;,v ~rore bad.,e~ in
dcat;ng love for the s,,nfe.leracy and Jeffer-
son Davis The latter reviewed the veterans
fr,,,,, the ,,orcb If fautain Johnston's honse
which stands !, ;ar,e grounds. through
which the proc,-siop passed. Bat the gate
xas ma -s.,ner opepet than the crowd rush
Ell in and swarrpel around Mr.. Davis. grasp
ing and kissing his hands and weighing over
,hs,n The v,.,erans foue,,t fo reacl, him
and yelled and cried like madmen.
At last the tastered flag of the Third Geor-
v;a Repiment was handed over the heads of
tl,e cro~d IN Mr.. Davis and leaning feebly
ON the arms of his wife and daughter. he
graspesi it and pressed il to his lips Then the
air resounded with shouts while thousands
of men and women burst into tears Mr..
Davis waved the flag and then Mrs Davis
and her daughters kissed il. Each of these
acts was signal for fresh outburst. such
AS Southerners only can give. Mrs. Davis
tore piece from the flag and put it into her
bosom and then the cheering broke out
anew. Mr.. Davis then made a speech COM
pairing himself to that tattered ensign
When he finished another Confederate flag
was passed up and he and his family wept
over it again.
Gov. Gordon then made short speech.
during which Mr.. Davis was taken TO the
fair grounds where he received more greet
ings In the evening, at a torchlight dem
onstration General Henry Jackson, ex-
Minister to Mexico made a SPEECH TO the
veterans. beginning There stands upon the
soil of Georgia the distinguished Mississippi
ian who, within the life of the present gem
Grafton, was the so-ealled traitor leader Of
the so-called lost cause. We. Confederate
veterans. relics of the armies which fought
for the cause are here To meet him, 10 move
hiin-fn the pride and pomp of no Roman
triumph, it i true. but bending our nccks
to our Roman yoke of subjngation-by invi-
taion of the State of Georgia. speaking
through her duly empowered officials all
have come
Behold majestic truth revealing herself
Saie sovereignty is not dead Georgia j. a
sovereign still, and calls upon her people 10
9 )rv with her to-day. Her glorious bisto-
rs Is the memory of her dead and this day
is bnsecrated To her confederate dead. They
" re guilty OF no treason 10 her. To whom.
then, would We be traitors? Wherr shall
We seek her higher sovereign Shall we find
hn in the federal constitution Then there
WI, a sovereign snltten 10 earth by traitor
hands, trampled in the dust by traitor feet,
but the hands and feet were not theirs.
DO we hold that the men who fought them
were traitors? Not at all. They too. were
loval to their sovereign. The constitution
was but treaty between high contracting
parties. without sovereignty in itself, since
with impunitv. through long wears of pain
fu agitation. it was broken by the sovereign
parties of the north They enacted into
crime the mere attempt of federal power To
enforce its DEGREES within their dominons
and because, after decades of endurance as
patient as it was delusive, the sovereign par
ties of the south declined 10 accept their rev
oIuiionary will in permanent place of the
constitution, the compac.-breakiug soyer-
eigns of the north, with numbers overwhel-
ming and material unbounded made a;,gres-
sive war upon them to force them TO accept
il.
The world has been told that the people of
the south made the war To perpetuate Afri-
can slavery. This is false They did not
create, institute, nor do they now wish to
restor, il The priuciple for which we fousht
,h,, only nr;nc;nls Of .,,vernno,,t ex,-ossi,,a
en.ngh to meet the reon;rements of ,bv,n-
c;py c;v;l;z.,;o, made of late nv s,lads,ona,s
el.,,ence 90 familiar 70 E,rona,n tho,,t,,
was American born.
Red with the blood of confederate heroes
moist with the tears of confederate widows
and orphans eastward shall it continue TO
roll carrying with il the blessed light of
Christian civilization all around the globe.
and so surely as il moves it shall baing the
day of triumph
In the triumphal procession" he said
" Abraham Lincoln shall not move as the
rightful president. but Jefferson Davis. the
so-called traitor. leader Of the so-called lost
cause.
We as confederates, can echo fiom our
hearts the patriotic cry of Webster the great.
Thanks be to God that l. too. am an Amer
lcan ci''Aeh' pu' u 'iie so-caiied ne" Sou'h
sion. meaply false of shame in our mast
shame in our sires shame in onr dead
which none bpt the silIiest fool can bonestlv |
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With all the power given to us by the |